Fever Ray on TV and on Tour
January 30, 2009 Posted by admin at 2:34 pm
Part Bill Henson, part Jim Jaramusch, the video for Fever Ray’s If I Had A Heart is one spooky clip indeed! Catch it making its Australian Television debut tonight on Rage!
In other Fever Ray news, Karin announced details this week for her first set of live shows. The stint will see Karin and a four piece band play dates in Norway, Denmark and her home, Sweden.
Fever Ray European tour dates are as follows:
Thursday, March 19th Norway, Oslo, Parkteatern
Friday, March 20th Sweden, Malmö, Babel
Saturday, March 21st Sweden, Gothenburg, Storan
Sunday, March 22nd Denmark, Copenhagen, Vega
Thursday, March 26th Sweden, Stockholm, Kägelbanan
Friday, March 27th Sweden, Umeå, Umeå Open
Saturday, March 28th Sweden, Luleå, Kulturens hus
And more dates will be unveiled shortly, Watch this space for more information, and keep your fingers crossed she hops on a plane to Australia soon!
Mission Control on Moshcam
January 16, 2009 Posted by admin at 3:00 pm
Mission Control played a cracking gig in support of the Mystery Jets the other week, and the guys from Moshcam were around to capture it. Check their performance of Silhouette here, or go to the Moshcam site to see the whole show.
Fever Ray album unleashed!
January 12, 2009 Posted by admin at 4:40 pm
Australian national youth broadcaster Triple J have chosen the stunning debut album from Fever Ray to run as the Feature Album all this week. If in Australia, tune in on 105.7 FM, or sample the album by listening on the Triple J website.
The airings co-incide with the international embargo finally lifting, so you can now buy the album in all its glory from iTunes as of today. Go on…what are you waiting for?!
Fever Ray
January 12, 2009 Posted by admin at 12:00 am
Fever Ray, aka Karin Dreijer Andersson, one half of The Knife, is set to release her debut self-titled album on March 21st 2009 on etcetc.
Fever Ray is the title, of both project and album, an evocation of the music’s sound, intense and anxious, yet luminous. It’s the culmination of work that began in 2007 when Karin and Olof, the brother-sister duo who are The Knife, decided to take time out following a handful of incredible live shows. Their first two albums did well in their Swedish homeland; their third, Silent Shout, went to Number One, won six Swedish Grammys, underlined their reputation as an act capable of the truly extraordinary and was pronounced the best record of 2006 by Pitchfork.
After having her second child and eight months of the most productive daydreaming later, Karin had a batch of new songs and the raw materials for the production of Fever Ray. Unsure how to get them over the finishing line, she took half to Christoffer Berg (who mixed The Knife’s work), half to Stockholm production duo Van Rivers & The Subliminal Kid for a final brush and tickle.
The result is Fever Ray, an album that, while recognisably the work of the same artist, is dramatically different from The Knife. It’s still constructed on electronic foundations and embellished with traditional instrumentation (guitar here, congas there).
Despite some upbeat moments (Triangle Walks, I’m Not Done), Fever Ray is starker, moodier, in places quite sombre – less an invasion, more a slow process of colonisation. Not that you’ll find anything so literal in the lyrics.
One thing’s for sure – in a country with a wealth of leftfield pop artists, Karin Dreijer Andersson sounds like no one but herself. Constantly inventive, restlessly emotive, Fever Ray swaggers, broods, intrigues and dazzles without ever making concessions to the soap opera demands of modern media.
“I think the music should be able to stand for itself without interfering, like what the artist looks like. That’s something you find out during the process, it’s a steady ongoing process about how you survive. When you work with music, you have the possibility to create magic.”
Opportunity taken, Fever Ray works its magic. Here’s your chance to fall under its spell.
Fever Ray’s debut single If I Had A Heart is available now on iTunes. The debut self-titled album is released on March 21st 2009 on etcetc, through Universal Music Australia.
Tracklisting:
1. If I Had A Heart
2. When I Grow Up
3. Dry & Dusty
4. Seven
5. Triangle Walks
6. Concrete Walls
7. Now’s The Only Time I Know
8. I’m Not Done
9. Keep The Streets Empty For Me
10. Coconut
Mission Control @ Sydney Festival Opening Night – Macquarie Street – Sydney, NSW
January 10, 2009 Posted by admin at 7:00 pm
Protected: Lost Valentinos, Advance Album Sampler
January 9, 2009 Posted by admin at 5:18 pm
Mission Control open Sydney Festival’s First Night
January 8, 2009 Posted by admin at 11:57 am
Hot off the heels of their recent support of Mystery Jets last weekend, Mission Control return to Sydney this Saturday to cut the proverbial ribbon for this year’s Sydney Festival. The boys will open the Macquarie Street stage at 7pm this Saturday night (10th), sharing a stage with Jaime Doom & Gus Da Hoodrat, DJ Mehdi, and Busy P…and best of all in these tough economic times, it’s FREE!
Now in its 32nd year, the iconic Sydney Festival kicks off this Saturday for a period of three weeks, bringing some of the world’s finest music, art, dance, and theatre talent to our shores as well as showing off the best our local scene has to offer. Saturday night’s opening night – curated by the dance music aficionados at Fuzzy – is no exception, with some heavyweight local and international talent.
Click here for more info on the opening night, and come down and see Mission Control kick it all off…
‘If I Had A Heart’ video premiere
January 7, 2009 Posted by admin at 10:40 am
Here it is! The first moving-picture piece of the Fever Ray puzzle, recently premiered worldwide on Pitchfork. Superbly shot by Andreas Nilsson (responsible for the equally haunting video for The Knife’s Silent Shout), the clip perfectly sets the tone for the new solo project by one half of The Knife, Karin Dreijer Andersson.
If I Had A Heart is the first single (out now on iTunes), from the debut self-titled album from Fever Ray released 21st March on etcetc.
If I Had A Heart from Fever Ray on Vimeo.
Mission Control w/ Mystery Jets – The Metro Theatre – Sydney, NSW
January 1, 2009 Posted by admin at 8:00 pm
Mission Control w/ Mystery Jets – HiFi Bar & Ballroom – Melbourne, VIC
January 1, 2009 Posted by admin at 8:00 pm
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